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8/6/2025, 12:55:18 PM
The music fan knows nor cares nothing of time signatures and tritones,
The literature fan has no interest in composition,
Yet the film fan is compelled to dissect his art form of choice. Why is this? We all feel the inclination. 99% of people who read a book on screenwriting have no intention of writing a screenplay. Indeed! It must be that voyeurism again. The desire to see through the matrix pushes us all. The noble idiot who invariably reaches the same maxim every time: “I liked it so it was good / I disliked it so it was bad” — this fool on the hill, who watches 4 movies a year, has a clarity and conciseness of thought that I will never reach.
>>213429903
Read Save the Cat by Blake Snyder if you want to understand the framework and story beats of basically every Hollywood movie, he breaks the studio formula down. And anything by Syd Field.
The literature fan has no interest in composition,
Yet the film fan is compelled to dissect his art form of choice. Why is this? We all feel the inclination. 99% of people who read a book on screenwriting have no intention of writing a screenplay. Indeed! It must be that voyeurism again. The desire to see through the matrix pushes us all. The noble idiot who invariably reaches the same maxim every time: “I liked it so it was good / I disliked it so it was bad” — this fool on the hill, who watches 4 movies a year, has a clarity and conciseness of thought that I will never reach.
>>213429903
Read Save the Cat by Blake Snyder if you want to understand the framework and story beats of basically every Hollywood movie, he breaks the studio formula down. And anything by Syd Field.
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